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Congress Looks for Answers on UFO Sightings

by air7 on 7/27/23, 7:31 AM with 34 comments

• by mcjiggerlog on 7/27/23, 11:35 AM

  As the adage goes - extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - and we still haven't seen any.

  Until there is some actual data to back any of this up, there's not really anything to talk about.

• by jonhysilvers on 7/27/23, 11:35 AM

  For me at least, the reason not to care is the timeline.

  us_agency: ufo's are not real, there's no proof

  ny_times: us_agency spends at least 22 million in ufo program w/ no results and no oversight.

  us_agency: ufo's are real.

  NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-prog... (most likely common knowledge by now, but just in case)

• by aurareturn on 7/27/23, 7:47 AM

  Are there any very important things that congress/US government is doing right now?

  In other words, is this UFO thing trying to distract the public from something very important?

• by GnarfGnarf on 7/27/23, 11:04 AM

  A dog turd is "non-human" biologics.

• by southernplaces7 on 7/28/23, 12:21 PM

  I wonder who here has ever read the work of Jacques Vallee? I recommend it very much. There are two implicit and rather rigid views that I think need to be carefully scrutinized in many of the comments on this site for UFO-related posts:

  The first of these is that whatever is happening on earth must either be a whole lot of nothing truly abnormal, or a case of aliens from other star systems having visited our planet, under the partial disqualifier that this seems unlikely as hell unless they have FTL travel capabilities.

  What if it's neither of those things? What if something else, not normal as we know normal things of nature to be, but also not classically extraterrestrial or for that matter an outright case of hoaxes and mistaken identity is happening?

  That last question leads into the second very common rigid point that should be scrutinized: the assumption that aliens have to be extrasolar visitors to be present on Earth. Since we known nothing about alien life, or any super-intelligent life anywhere at all, we can only guess at anything about its nature.

  Because of this I think it's a bad idea to not consider the possibility of something entirely different from classical interpretations of extraterrestrials interacting with us already, and possibly in ways so strange (because of its own truly alien strangeness in a general sense) that they seem absurd and instead get written off as myths or hoaxes across decades and centuries of human history and reported events.

• by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on 7/27/23, 1:35 PM

  Answers? What is the question? "What is this a distraction for?" I hope.

• by thesaintlives on 7/27/23, 8:53 AM

  3 different people giving testimony. Taken as one you could just dismiss it. Collectively I found the statements very convincing. Something is most certainly going on that is pretty weird to put it mildly...

• by ChrisArchitect on 7/27/23, 5:18 PM

  [Dupe]

  Tons of conversation yesterday over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880471

• by hker999 on 7/27/23, 8:49 AM

  Proof or gtfo